Quotes About Persistence

Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution even it it's right in front of your nose.

The moral of the story is that if you tell yourself you can do something, then you can actually do it, a moral easily disproved if you tell yourself that you can eat nine pints of ice cream in a single sitting, or that you can shipwreck yourself on a distant island simply by setting off in a rented canoe with holes sawed in it.

Perhaps one night, when you were very small, someone tucked you into bed and read you a story called "The Little Engine That Could," and if so then you have my profound sympathies, as it is one of the most tedious stories on Earth. The story probably put you right to sleep, which is the reason it is read to children, so I will remind you that the story involves the engine of a train that for some reason has the ability to think and talk.

gdy siÄ™ czÅ'owiek porzÄ…dnie i dÅ'ugo wypÅ'acze, na ogóÅ' robi mu siÄ™ lepiej, nawet jeÅ›li okolicznoÅ›ci nie zmieniÅ'y siÄ™ ani na jotÄ™.

Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over.

Se encontró leyendo la misma frase una y otra vez. Se encontró leyendo la misma frase una y otra vez. Se encontró leyendo la misma frase una y otra vez.

one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy

Lemony Snicket

Lemony Snicket

Lemony Snicket

Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.

But after a little while I got used to the tedium, understanding that these parts of my work were as essential to the arabesques of the final pattern as the rest bars are to a symphony.

During my eighteen years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball. —MICKEY MANTLE I

Julia." It is hard to tell. The blisters didn't help either. In fact, they made

limerick?" asked

It was kicking butt! What

Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence.

For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.

porque uma ideia tão justa não poderá ser estéril, um fim tão gracioso merece ser executado com obstinação.

Ik zal met mijn verstand niet kunnen begrijpen waarom ik bid en toch zal ik blijven bidden.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

Life did not stop, and one had to live.